InfoQ interview at BuildStuff 14
The video and interactive transcript is also available on InfoQ’s page here.
Why I like Go’s interfaces
When I hear people talk about Go, a lot of the discussions focus on its concurrency features. Whilst it has a good concurrency story, the language landscape is currently filled with languages that have an equally good or better concurrency story – F#, Erlang, Elixir, Clojure, etc… Personally, what I found really interesting from my …
CraftConf 15–Takeaways from “Microservice AntiPatterns”
This is another good talk on micro-services at CraftConf, where Tammer Saleh talks about common antipatterns with micro-services and some of the ways you can avoid them. Personally I think it’s great that both Tammer and Adrian have spent a lot of time talking about challenges with micro-services at CraftConf. There has been so much …
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CraftConf 15–Takeaways from “The Hidden Dimension of Refactoring”
One of the great things about CraftConf is the plethora of big name tech speakers that the organizers have managed to attract. Michael Feathers is definitely one of the names that made me excited to go to CraftConf. Know your commits We have a bias towards the current state of our code, but we …
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CraftConf 15–Takeaways from “Scaling micro-services at Gilt”
There were a couple of micro-services related talks at this year’s edition of CraftConf. The first was by Adrian Trenaman of Gilt, who talked about their journey from a monolithic architecture to micro-services, and from self-managed datacentres to the cloud. From Monolith to Micro-Services They started off with a Ruby on Rails monolithic architecture …
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CraftConf 15–Takeaways from “Beyond Features”
This was one of my favourite talks at the conference and having seen quite a few of his talks Dan North is always a safe bet! Rantifesto about Agile Methodology The talk started with a Rantifesto about the state of Agile. When the Agile manifesto was conceived in 2001, it made a set of …
CraftConf 15 experience report
Phew, what a week, finally back in the UK after a good few days in Budapest for CraftConf. What a beautiful city and what a great conference. On a personal level it’s been a good trip, caught up with some old friends, and met some new ones. Big thanks to Adam Granicz and the lovely …
Slides for my Craft-Conf meetup talk on DSLs and F#
Learn you to tame complex APIs with F#-powered DSLs from Yan Cui
Binary and Json benchmarks updated
DISCLAIMER : as always, you should benchmark against your payload and use case, the benchmark numbers I have produced here is unlikely to be representative of your use cases and neither is anybody else’s benchmark numbers. You can use the simple test harness I created and see these example code to benchmark against your particular …
Design for Latency issues
The most common issue I have encountered in production are latency/performance related. They can be symptoms of a whole host of underlying causes ranging from AWS network issues (which can also manifest itself in latency/error-rate spikes in any of the AWS services), over-loaded servers to simple GC pauses. Latency issues are inevitable – as much …